Read a comfort book/watch comfort show. You know it won’t hit as hard, but it’ll still be fun.

We get prints of photos of our daughter and from holidays for exactly this reason. Snapfish does pretty cheap prints, so although they’re not amazing quality they’ll still do for having a look through every now and then.

Unfortunately, my memory is pretty shit so I often forget how I fucked up when the situations come around again.

I remember my dad saying he regretted having not done a different degree in his 20s. I love him and I know he didn’t mean anything by it, but it did feel like he was saying he regretted having the life that ended up with me in it.

Since then I’ve tried never to regret a decision, but still to learn from mistakes.

I’d agree with the folk suggesting you live together for at least a year first, whilst also holding down full time jobs. That’s what most of your life is going to be like, so you should know what that feels like before making that kind of commitment.

To be practical, the commitment is more about the money since weddings are expensive and divorce is just a bit of hassle (unless kids or mortgage are involved).

Just adding to the numbers recommending Linux Mint. Once it’s set up you don’t really need to fiddle with it much/at all. Software manager is easy to use to find what you need for your tasks.

Where’s all this stemming from? It smacks of Palantir…

This is why health and safety officers are worth it. That’s a lot of not dead or injured people.

I’ll be back when they get back up.

I wish all mine were as good as the best I’ve had.

Yes, though if the sponsor is doing it on the cheap then they might pick facilities and monitors who don’t care or don’t have the capacity to pick up on all the details, or scrutinise minutiae. The monitor can only QC what’s written down for example, and an investigator can be perfectly capable of having the bare minimum of a consent process and copy pasta as if it was done thoroughly.

I’m glad all my participants are of sound mind; the idea of navigating the world of incapacity and research gives me the heebie jeebies.

When it comes to therapies that are likely toxic, e.g. chemo, that’s why the sponsor has to demonstrate through pre-clinical data that there is a high enough likelihood that the benefits will outweigh the harm that it is a legitimate therapy to trial on humans. Even then there should still be thorough, audited processes for obtaining fully informed consent before recruiting patients into these trials, including making certain they are aware the trial may cause more harm than standard of care.

It’s the burden of evidence required in pre-clinical data that makes me defend animal testing despite being vegan.

I don’t see the problem with that